During her professional career the author has worked in the Fashion and Executive Search Industries in Australia and Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong during the pro-democracy movement in China in the late 1980s she and her son lived through the horrors of the Tiananmen Square massacre seeing firsthand the devastating effects on the region. She has long held a fascination for the history of the world’s oldest civilization, its culture and people.
Several years ago she left city life for the south-west slopes of NSW where she lives on a cattle-breeding property with her partner.